Dr Samuel Shaw is Lecturer in History of Art at the Open University. He has taught at several universities in the United Kingdom, including Leicester, Birmingham and Sussex. Between 2013 and 2016 he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Center for British Art in the USA. He has written widely on art in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 2015 he co-curated the exhibition From Bradford to Benares: The Art of Sir William Rothenstein at the Cartwright Hall Gallery in Bradford. His current research focuses on empire and the environment in the long nineteenth century.